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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:45:49 +0200
From:      Robin Schilham <co9@xs4all.nl>
To:        Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login
Message-ID:  <3DB4758D.4070405@xs4all.nl>
References:  <20021021212825.87801.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com>

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Bsd Neophyte wrote:

>i was changing the login shell from sh to bash... but i entered the wrong
>location.  now, i cannot login to the system using that account, which is
>the only accout that i can su to root from.
>  
>

If you have any other non-root account which you can use to login, 
perhaps you
can try to login using one of those accounts and then use su to login to 
the "bash"
account with the -m option. See su manual.

Robin

>does anyone know how i can resolve this issue w/o taking the system out of
>the garage, booting into single user mode and manually changing the path?
>
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